FlipBoardMayor says lone shooter is in custody following a shooting incident at Fort Lauderdale airport https://t.co/lAl4XsZARK pic.twitter.com/1QTaQXeH7p
— CNN (@CNN) January 6, 2017
(Note: We are updating this story below as new developments unfold.)
Early Friday afternoon, a gunman entered the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport In Florida and shot several people. Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer first reported the incident on Twitter while adding word from law enforcement that five people were struck. NBC News and CNN upped that number to nine people injured with “multiple” fatalities.
The Associated Press also reported that more than one death occurred, and CNN later confirmed that five people were killed in the gunfire.
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6 days. Thats what it took for the first American shooting to happen in 2017. 6 effin days. Sure, America has no gun control problem. Carry on.
This was definitely not the first shooting of 2017
I’m very pro gun and even I know that’s an incorrect statement. Chicago has mass shootings every weekend.
@JTRO first one on this scale (multi victim) of 2017.
@heynowhank I am sure thats true but this is texhnythe first weekend of 2017. So we both correct
@SwedishSheff dude, there were 28 shootings ON NEW YEAR’S DAY in Chicago alone. And several of them were multi-victim. The media does not report on the vast majorities of shootings (even multi-casualty shootings) because of the race / socioeconomic component of the shootings. They’re almost all involving minorities and many are related to drugs.
Wow…I just flew out of this airport at 8:30 this morning to Houston… I almost took a later flight out of pure laziness but I decided to suck it up and wake up early. Life is crazy
You from the HTX area? You showed up just in time for our one week long winter
Nah, I’m not but I have family out here. I’m glad I get winter, south Florida is just basically summer all year round. It was 80 degrees there yesterday.
It’s being reported that the shooter is an Iraq War veteran who was undergoing treatment for mental illness.
But everyone told me things would magically turn around because 2016 ended!
Its not 2017. This is 2016 S.